Keywords Explorer

Thousands of keyword ideas, keyword difficulty and advanced metrics

Get thousands of relevant keyword suggestions from our mammoth database of over 3 billion keywords. Use the Keyword difficulty score and our advanced keyword metrics to decide which keywords to target.

Keywords Explorer also shows you annual search volume trends and gives you some great insights into searchers' behavior and SERP ranking history.

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Get an email notification whenever you or your competitors win or lose a backlink. This is a great way to track their PR and linkbuilding activities and your own, almost in real time.

Set up alerts for any keywords related to your brand, business, product or service. Whenever someone mentions one of these keywords on their website, you get an email notification with a link to that page.

This way you can also track who is talking about your competitors online, so that you can jump into relevant conversations and exploit these opportunities immediately.

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